Words and Beats with Joe Cook
Mountainside, 2025

Joe Cook is a musician, lyricist, music producer and spoken word artist from Birmingham.
Joe plays drums and percussion in various musical projects, performing live at venues and festivals across the UK and Europe. Through a love of lyricism, hip-hop and song-writing, Joe crash landed in the spoken word/poetry scene. His work has been shared on various BBC platforms such as BBC Arts, BBC 1XTRA, BBC Asian Network as well as performing on BBC Doctors.
Joe's workshop will explore rhythm and poetry allowing participants to try out various creative writing activities as well as looking at the dynamic relationship between rhythm and words – the workshop will use body percussion, drumming and your words!